re: DVD and CD drives won't work no matter what I do Monday, December 10, 2007 at 4:37 pm Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Brian McDaniel (9 messages posted) After reading your post I tried what you said. Every time the CMOS recognizes the drive just fine. I can't open any CD-ROM's in Windows. Just for kicks I tried connecting everything the way it was when I got the computer, namely, CD-ROM drive as master and hard drive as slave on the same cable. Same results. I also tried some other things. I tried booting from a Win98 Emergency Boot Disk. MSCDEX found my CD drive and assigned it drive letter D:. I was able to change over to D: but when I tried a DIR, I got an error. I think it was "Fail on INT 14" unless it was INT 21; it was definitely one of those. Also I tried disconnecting the hard drive completely to see if the computer could boot from the CD drive. I took out the boot floppy and put a bootable CD (the WinXP install CD in this case) in the CD drive. The computer couldn't boot from it at all. It looks like my problem is deeper than Windows, but higher than BIOS/CMOS or at the same level as BIOS. I also noticed that my CMOS menu seems to take a long time to come up, like a minute or more. Any more ideas? On Monday, December 10, 2007 at 1:14 pm, DEX wrote: >Dealing with Unwanted Spyware and Parasites > >Click Here > > > > >It could be the MB has gone bad, ( controller) you will need to do a test or two. >Put the rom on the same cable as the HD, Master/Slave setup. besure to set the jumpers >right, then run your BIOS to see if it finds the Rom and the HD.. > >If so switch the cable on the MB to the 2nd cable pickup...(controller) then do >the same thing... > >If you get a error, then you may have a bad MB > >If it works on both ports on the MB then you may have a software error in windows...if >you uninstalled some software like Roxie it may have told windows that you don't >have any Roms.. > >In that case you will need to down load a fix or rework the reg.file.. > > > > > > Are you a wood worker ?,if so Click Here > > Written in response to: re: DVD and CD drives won't work no matter what I do (DEX: Monday, December 10, 2007 at 1:14 pm) Responses to this message: re: DVD and CD drives won't work no matter what I do (DEX: Monday, December 10, 2007 at 8:05 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] DVD and CD drives won't work no matter what I do (Brian McDaniel: Mon, Dec 10, 2007, 11:16 am) re: DVD and CD drives won't work no matter what I do (DEX: Mon, Dec 10, 2007, 1:14 pm) re: DVD and CD drives won't work no matter what I do (Brian McDaniel: Mon, Dec 10, 2007, 4:37 pm) re: DVD and CD drives won't work no matter what I do (DEX: Mon, Dec 10, 2007, 8:05 pm) re: DVD and CD drives won't work no matter what I do (Brian McDaniel: Mon, Dec 10, 2007, 8:41 pm) re: DVD and CD drives won't work no matter what I do (DEX: Mon, Dec 10, 2007, 9:40 pm) re: DVD and CD drives won't work no matter what I do (Brian McDaniel: Tue, Dec 11, 2007, 8:37 am) re: DVD and CD drives won't work no matter what I do (Brian McDaniel: Wed, Dec 12, 2007, 8:22 am) re: DVD and CD drives won't work no matter what I do (DEX: Wed, Dec 12, 2007, 8:48 am) re: DVD and CD drives won't work no matter what I do (Brian McDaniel: Wed, Dec 12, 2007, 4:42 pm) re: DVD and CD drives won't work no matter what I do (Brian McDaniel: Fri, Dec 14, 2007, 8:02 am) re: DVD and CD drives won't work no matter what I do (DEX: Fri, Dec 14, 2007, 8:55 am) re: DVD and CD drives won't work no matter what I do (Brian McDaniel: Sun, Dec 16, 2007, 9:18 am) re: DVD and CD drives won't work no matter what I do (Florence Young: Tue, Jan 1, 2008, 4:40 pm) re: DVD and CD drives won't work no matter what I do (Brian McDaniel: Wed, Jan 2, 2008, 6:34 am) re: DVD and CD drives won't work no matter what I do (Jerry: Wed, Jan 2, 2008, 7:22 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum